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The Middletown Blog: Voice, Class and Barthes Revisited
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Popular Music - Social Class - Musicology. Saturday, February 19, 2011. Voice, Class and Barthes Revisited. I while back, I got a bit grumpy about Barthes and his seemingly over-rated article, “The Grain of the Voice.”. I was delighted when my wife spotted a promising article on the voice and class that addressed some of these issues and, though referencing the dreaded “Grain” article, found something in it that surprised me. Generally, he observes, any singing voice that middle-class Victorians encounte...
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The Middletown Blog: September 2011
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Popular Music - Social Class - Musicology. Thursday, September 29, 2011. Critical Wit Podcast on Rush, Rock Music and the Middle Class. I was interviewed by Chris Lindsay for the Critical Wit Podcast on. Rush, Rock Music and the Middle Class. The podcast can be heard here. Thanks so much to Chris L. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Rush Is A Band. Rush and Philosophy Blog. Critical Wit Podcast on Rush, Rock Music and the M. View my complete profile.
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The Middletown Blog: October 2010
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Popular Music - Social Class - Musicology. Sunday, October 24, 2010. On Springsteen and Working-Class Heroism. In rock, during the 1970s and 1980s, Bruce Springsteen projected the image of an American blue-collar hero. What's interesting for me about the whole Springsteen phenomenon, though, is the massive white-collar following he has amassed. Tongue-in-cheek, I've sometimes wondered if Springsteen is a liberal yuppie's fantasy-come-true of what a working-class man should be. Working-class icon. Woo...
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The Middletown Blog: March 2011
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Popular Music - Social Class - Musicology. Friday, March 25, 2011. Corporate Rock and Cultural Capital. I’ve always thought of Rush mainly as a progressive rock group. Of course, genre allegiances are open to endless argument, and Rush has been accepted at various times as a metal band and classic rock band. Some fans would argue that no genre adequately defines them. I while back, when I was reading a blog entry. From Tom Beaudoin at. However, I think that. Reputation is part of the reason why I always ...
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The Middletown Blog: August 2011
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Popular Music - Social Class - Musicology. Monday, August 1, 2011. New Interview at Rush Vault. Robert Freedman runs a new and informative Rush site called Rush Vault. He has given a lot of time to reviewing and summarizing. The new Rush and Philosophy book, and he interviewed Durrell Bowman. About co-editing the volume. I was pleased to be interviewed too about my chapter in that book, as well as about. Rush, Rock Music, and the Middle Class. The interview with me can be read here. Rush Is A Band.
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The Middletown Blog: New Interview at Rush Vault
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Popular Music - Social Class - Musicology. Monday, August 1, 2011. New Interview at Rush Vault. Robert Freedman runs a new and informative Rush site called Rush Vault. He has given a lot of time to reviewing and summarizing. The new Rush and Philosophy book, and he interviewed Durrell Bowman. About co-editing the volume. I was pleased to be interviewed too about my chapter in that book, as well as about. Rush, Rock Music, and the Middle Class. The interview with me can be read here. Rush Is A Band.
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The Middletown Blog: July 2010
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Popular Music - Social Class - Musicology. Wednesday, July 28, 2010. What Does "The Trees" Say About Class? Well, I'm having a little author's regret about not talking more in depth in. About Rush's "The Trees," an enduringly popular song from. I addressed it briefly while talking about the political meanings of individualism as Rush used it. But this song, which is told a bit like a kid's fairy tale or fable, bears a lot more discussion from the standpoint of class. It cautions against changing the stat...
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The Middletown Blog: Corporate Rock and Cultural Capital
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Popular Music - Social Class - Musicology. Friday, March 25, 2011. Corporate Rock and Cultural Capital. I’ve always thought of Rush mainly as a progressive rock group. Of course, genre allegiances are open to endless argument, and Rush has been accepted at various times as a metal band and classic rock band. Some fans would argue that no genre adequately defines them. I while back, when I was reading a blog entry. From Tom Beaudoin at. However, I think that. Reputation is part of the reason why I always ...
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The Middletown Blog: December 2010
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Popular Music - Social Class - Musicology. Tuesday, December 28, 2010. Can We Hear Class in Music? This is a question that I repeatedly ask myself as I think about the relationship between the music we hear and the society in which it’s performed. I started thinking about it again after reading a bit further into the work of János Maróthy, a Hungarian musicologist who specialized in discussing the inherence of social class in music and its history. I pretty much rejected Maróthy out of hand while writing.
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The Middletown Blog: May 2010
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Popular Music - Social Class - Musicology. Sunday, May 30, 2010. Presenting on Popular Music and the Middle Class. On Thursday, June 3, I'll be presenting a paper, "Popular Music and the Middle Class: Problems and Potentials in the Study of 'Dominant' Formations," at the joint IASPM-CSTM conference at the University of Regina. It will discuss some of the stumbling blocks I found when studying both Rush and the singer-songwriter movement in relation to the North American middle class. Rush Is A Band.
